Linfield College: Study Abroad in France

This letter from returnee Virginia (Zander) Anderson explains the value of studying abroad in France

The EMC: Past, Present, Future

In 1968, the pianist John Tilbury and the composer Cornelius Cardew, having built up a great body of experimental music, asked the then-youngest member of the experimental music community, eighteen-year-old Christopher Hobbs, to create a method of disseminating these pieces to other musicians. Hobbs founded the Experimental Music Catalogue (the EMC), which took off so well that by 1971 the EMC was run by a committee consisting of Hobbs, Gavin Bryars and Michael Nyman. The EMC was distinctive as a small publishing initiative in its Anthologies of score collections grouped according to instrument or activity (the Keyboard Anthology, Educational Anthology, Verbal Anthology) and in its insistence that composers kept rights and other decisions regarding their works. From 1969 to the early 1980s, the EMC sent experimental and minimalist music by mail order to an international audience, representing British experimental and systems music worldwide in scores as Brian Eno’s Obscure Records represented it worldwide in sound. Although the EMC mailing address was in London, much of the musical activity from these composers occurred at Leicester Polytechnic (the predecessor of this festival’s host, De Montfort University), where Bryars had founded a music department steeped in the ethos that created the EMC. Indeed, the EMC, revived by Hobbs and Virginia Anderson in 1999 as a web-based publisher and record label, is now based in Leicester. This lecture, the keynote for the festival, shall explore English experimental, minimal and postminimal music as part of the history of the EMC, much of which appeared at the EMC2: Remembering the Experimental Music Catalogue weekend. [VA

Almeida 1984

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It\u27s Football Time in the Bluegrass!: The Community of UK Football Athletes & Fans and Their Shared Language & Religious Practices

This thesis observes how University of Kentucky fans and athletes create both a community and a religious experience surrounding the sport of football through their use of language. Fans and athletes took part in interviews that implicitly asked about religious experiences and community. Once the interviews were completed, they were transcribed and underwent open thematic coding. Themes were gathered from the interviews and compared to determine if the fans and athletes were separate subcommunities or if they were simply part of the at-large University of Kentucky football program community. These themes also aided in determining if and how fans and athletes create a religious experience. The determined themes confirm that there is a religious experience created by the fans and athletes and that the two groups are distinct subcommunities within the at-large community

Energy determination of corn co-products in finishing pigs and the use of an in vitro organic matter digestibility assay to predict in vivo energy

Twenty co-products from various ethanol plants were fed to finishing pigs to determine DE and ME and to generate 8 equations to predict DE or ME based upon each ingredient\u27s chemical analysis. Additionally, a 3-step enzymatic assay was used to determine if in vitro OM digestibility would predict in vivo DE or ME or improve the prediction estimate of DE or ME for corn co-products. Co-products included: DDGS (7), HP-DDG (3), bran (2), germ (2), gluten meal and feed, dehulled degermed corn, dried solubles, starch, and corn oil. The in vitro OM digestibility for each co-product was determined in triplicate using procedures as described by Boisen and Fernandez (1997). For the in vivo study, the control diet was based on corn (97.1%), limestone, dicalcium phosphate, salt, vitamins, and trace minerals. All but two test diets were formulated by mixing the control diet with 30% of a co-product. Dried solubles and oil were included at 20% and 10%, respectively. Eight groups of 24 gilts (n=192, 112.7 final BW y 7.9 kg) were randomly assigned to a test diet and each diet was fed to a total of 8 pigs. Gilts were placed in metabolism crates and fed an amount equivalent to 3% BW daily for 9 d followed by collecting feces and urine separately for 4 d. Ingredients were analyzed for GE, CP, moisture, crude fat, crude fiber, ash, total dietary fiber (TDF), NDF, and ADF. Gross energy was determined on the feed, feces, and urine to calculate DE and ME for each ingredient. The in vitro OM digestibility ranged from 33.3 to 100% for corn bran and corn oil, while DE ranged from 2,517 to 8,988 kcal/kg DM and ME ranged from 2,334 to 8,755 kcal/kg for corn gluten feed and corn oil, respectively. Although in vitro OM digestibility was correlated to in vivo DE and ME (r = 0.62 and 0.63, P). \u3c 0.01), it did not improve the prediction of DE or ME from ingredient analysis. Stepwise regression resulted in the equations: DE = (0.985 y GE) - (31.856 y TDF) - (34.010 y Ash) (r2 = 0.96, SE = 275, P \u3c 0.01). ; ME, kcal/kg = (0.949 y GE) - (32.238 y TDF) - (40.175 y ash) (r2 = 0.95, SE = 306, P). \u3c 0.01). These results indicate that OM digestibility, DE, and ME vary substantially between corn co-products and the best predictors of DE and ME are GE, TDF, and ash

Costal Wetlands: Prospects For Satellite Inventory

Wise management of coastal resources depends in part on the maintenance and preservation of healthy wetland ecosystems. The water storage and purification function of wetlands as well as the nutrient contribution to aquatic organisms is well documented. Wetland management decisions are dependent upon timely, accurate information such as location, size and value of major wetlands and identification of areas significantly affected by man\u27s activities. ERTS-1 (Earth Resources Technology Satellite) data provides repetitive\u27 synoptic coverage for analysis of wetland ecology, detection of change, and mapping or inventory of wetland boundaries and plant communities. ERTS-1 positive transparencies of Atlantic Coastal wetlands were enlarged to different scales and maps were made using a variety of methods. Results of analysis of imagery and digital data indicate: (1) mapping of wetland boundaries and vegetative communities from imagery at a scale of 1:1,000,000 is impractical because small details are difficult to illustrate; (2) mapping to a scale of 1:250,000 is practical for defining land-water interface, upper wetland boundary, gross vegetative communities, and soil disposal/dredge and fill operations; (3) 1:125,000 enlargements provide additional information on transition zones, smaller plant communities, and drainage or mosquito ditching; (4) ERTS digital data can be used for mapping at a scale of approximately 1:20,000